Word: jaunted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This 9,000-mile jaunt is the result of the curiosity of N.D. Vaughan '29, who is a member of the party exploring in the distant Southern icefields. Papers are scarce there, and up-to-date news unheard of. So Vaughan, eager to learn what Crimson teams have done this year, wrote to the publicity office of the H. A. A.; and in reply a complete summary of Harvard's victories and defeats will be broadcast from Schenectady Saturday or Sunday evening, probably on the low-wave radio-phone transmitter...
...Virgin and Child which he called a 13th century Limoges enamel. He was fond of describing how Queen Isabella of Spain, one of its owners, had caused a niche to be cut under the pommel of her saddle to contain the statuette. With this tiny shrine she could jaunt while worshiping, or worship while jaunting...
...snowy open spaces. This year the attack was so long delayed the Vagabond thought an immunity had been established, but last Thursday's blizzard made Cambridge look so unlike its customary rather grimy self that yesterday he sallied forth. To spare the more gruesome details, the morning's jaunt on snowshoes managed to give him a very intimate acquaintance with the snow by tripping him up every time one of the attractions of nature he had come to see drew his attention away from a fixed spot about two feet in front of him. Skating was out of the question...
...mile course has been changed slightly this year, although it still retains the double jaunt over the hills. The harriers will start and finish near Broadway, and will cut down near the end of the park before doubling back for their journey under the trestle and over the hills...
...parades, no salutes, this was to be just a pleasure jaunt and big game hunt through Africa. But Britain's leading special correspondents stalked in the offing, nosing after every elusive atom of royal news...